The Friday Canon: EAST 17

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

It's Britain's second biggest boyband ever from the early nineties! The chaps from Walthamstow had a great run over five years, but which FIVE of their UK Top 40 singles are the best?

[Poll #991212]

Bob Dylan: (link)
1. Subterranean Homesick Blues
2. Like A Rolling Stone
3. I Want You
=4. One Of Us Must Know (Sooner Or Later)
=4. Times They Are A-Changin
6. Lay Lady Lay
7. Positively Fourth Street
=8. Knockin On Heaven's Door
=8. Maggie's Farm
=10. Can You Please Crawl Out Of Your Window
=10. Rainy Day Women Nos 12 And 35

Depeche Mode: (link)
1. Enjoy The Silence
2. Just Can't Get Enough
3. Personal Jesus
4. Everything Counts
=5. Never Let Me Down Again
=5. People Are People
7. New Life
8. Master And Servant
9. Shake The Disease
=10. See You
=10. World In My Eyes

Comments

[jauntyemma.livejournal.com]

One of my friends at college had a HUGE crush on Tony Mortimer (this must've been around 1993/94 and she was about 21 so this is kind of embarrassing for her). I have to say I didn't see it myself but then I suppose he is the lesser of 4 evils in the E17 hunk stakes.

[jauntyemma.livejournal.com]

In fact this has just made me realise that my indignation at men ranking the Spice Girls in order of shaggability was deeply hypocritical as I remember doing the exact same thing with Take That in 1992.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Haha I have now got this comment notification!

I definitely ranked TT at some point but didn't bother with E17. For the record:

90s TT rating: Little Mark, Robbie, Jason, Howard, Gary
00s TT rating: Jason, Howard, Little Mark, Gary, Robbie

[jauntyemma.livejournal.com]

Ooh I can't remember mine. I think Jason was my favourite (cringe), then maybe Mark / Robbie / Howard / Gary.

Now I think I'd go for: Gary (most sensible and richest ha ha)/ Robbie (good for a kiss & tell) / Howard (if he has a bath first) / Jason (for old times' sake) / Mark. There is something really repellent about Mark.

But of course I am happily married and I don't think any of TT would really want to shag a 6.5 months pregnant former lukewarm fan.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Jason and Howard are now both HOTTT. I most definitely would.

[jauntyemma.livejournal.com]

Have you ever heard Jason speak? It is rly rly offputting.
Howard has always had something of a haunted look to him (maybe it's just a vacant look, there is a fine line).

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

poor little mark!

[ms-bracken.livejournal.com]

Gary: most sensible, richest, but also most closely resembling a potato.

[ms-bracken.livejournal.com]

"I didn't see it myself"

Looks + brains*! the best combination.

*he was, lest we forget, the songwriter

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

i think you'll find that that's The Songwriter ;)

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

The SONGWRITER, you say? A boyband member that WRITES THEIR OWN SONGS?!!!11!?

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Bless (http://www.bbc.co.uk/essex/content/articles/2006/08/02/tony_mortimer_feature.shtml).

[ms-bracken.livejournal.com]

We're not talking about talentless no-marks, here.